"As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street."
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Historians from the United StatesDiplomats of the United StatesNovelists from BostonUnited States Ambassadors to Great Britain and the United KingdomUnited States Ambassadors to Austria and Austria-Hungary
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Of William the Silent. In a footnote Motley cites the original of his last phrase in an official report made by the Greffier Corneille Aertsens: "dont par toute la ville l'on est en si grand duil tellement que les petits enfans en pleurent par les rues."
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John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 – May 29, 1877) was an American historian, novelist and diplomat.
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